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I think the above commenter is just pointing out how the fundamental conflict between these two things results in significantly lessened incentive for pharmaceutical companies to p…

As a current researcher in the field I am perpetually annoyed by the overeagerness of AI research to make fantastical claims. Reading and extracting information from papers is a mi…

People don't have the time, money, or energy. And they will continue to lose all three until there is no option but to figure out collective organisation

There is almost nothing written for ubuntu that won't work on arch or really most current distros. When I ran arch I did have to get familiar with assumptions people make due to ub…

Does type theory fit into whatever definition of semantics you're using? It is certainly reaching some incredible heights of usability with tools like Lean and closer to the mainst…

Yes but no. The actual values represented by the quantized bits don't use a representation akin to IEEE floating point, but they are able to act like floating point values due to m…

Personally I prefer the leetcode UI, but I find that AoC challenges are usually grokkable problems where leetcode seems to require you to have a ton of very bespoke data structure …

This kind of post is why I do not understand C++ programmers whatsoever. It's basically a demonstration of the absurd amount of time C++ takes away from you by being the moldy pile…

You can say that about most general purpose compiled languages. I guess I don't see why I would use D for any particular compiled use case over something like zig or rust? and if I…

Regardless, you can easily find the ebook online which Cory Doctorow won't have any problem with

wow, I really wish I had this course in college. if this is what the cs degree at my university looked like I would never have switched to a humanities degree

I use NixOS daily as well, I installed home-manager as part of my initial configuration and have basically just ended up using configuration.nix in a git repo for everything anyway…